We need a government entity that actually manages the growth of the US economy. The "Free Market" is like playing Russian-Roulette.

Lets take a poll. The "Free Market" with unregulated global casinos and boom/bust cycles that always lead to BAILOUTS with our SS & Medicare contributions, OR a real government regulator that manages the growth of the US economy...with TAX POLICY CARROTS & STICKS...

What is it with neo-socialists? Are they stupid enough to think that Wall Street operates under no federal regulations? Fannie Mae was an unholy partnership between the private sector and the federal government and the politicians showed Wall Street how to steal big time. Frank Raines walked away with 90 Million dollars for allegedly cooking the books to show a fake profit that was tied to his salary. The Feds cooked up a ponzi scheme worthy of organized crime. They bundled up bad loans with good loans and sold them back to banks as good loans. Mean while the Fannie board was filled with no show political payoff jobs. Wall Street operates under restrictions that would fill a law school room. Only the insane or the misinformed or the ignorant would suggest that there are no restrictions.

We need a government entity that actually manages the growth of the US economy. The "Free Market" is like playing Russian-Roulette.

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That's the last thing we need. The government has been managing he growlaizzezth of the US economy for 100 years. The government has been the main cause of almost every recession/depression we have had.

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Try better than 200 years. The Louisiana Purchase, granting huge tracts of land to railroad interests who built the continental railroad, arms contractors since the DuPonts of Delaware, engineering and technology firms, construction contractors, steel producers and automobile makers.

And with all that government 'interference' in the free market system, I, for one, think we did okay. We have the largest economy ion the world, the strongest military ever known, and a system of laws to preclude swindlers and scams. Ours has never been a laissez faire capitalist economy. We need government oversight the way banks need guards.

What is it with neo-socialists? Are they stupid enough to think that Wall Street operates under no federal regulations? Fannie Mae was an unholy partnership between the private sector and the federal government and the politicians showed Wall Street how to steal big time. Frank Raines walked away with 90 Million dollars for allegedly cooking the books to show a fake profit that was tied to his salary. The Feds cooked up a ponzi scheme worthy of organized crime. They bundled up bad loans with good loans and sold them back to banks as good loans. Mean while the Fannie board was filled with no show political payoff jobs. Wall Street operates under restrictions that would fill a law school room. Only the insane or the misinformed or the ignorant would suggest that there are no restrictions.

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My entire point is that the DC whores can't be trusted. They get bought-off by Wall Street, and our SS & Medicare funds bail them out. We need a REAL regulator, not a cash cow for the DC whores. The system is totally fucked-up. I'm suggesting that it needs to be run by a group like CALPERS or some other trusted board of mostly saints, run entirely in the open. FED members like Bernanke, maybe a Nobel prize winning economist or two, just to set tax policy and stabilize the US economy for the long term.

We need a government entity that actually manages the growth of the US economy. The "Free Market" is like playing Russian-Roulette.

Lets take a poll. The "Free Market" with unregulated global casinos and boom/bust cycles that always lead to BAILOUTS with our SS & Medicare contributions, OR a real government regulator that manages the growth of the US economy...with TAX POLICY CARROTS & STICKS...

We need a government entity that actually manages the growth of the US economy. The "Free Market" is like playing Russian-Roulette.

Lets take a poll. The "Free Market" with unregulated global casinos and boom/bust cycles that always lead to BAILOUTS with our SS & Medicare contributions, OR a real government regulator that manages the growth of the US economy...with TAX POLICY CARROTS & STICKS...

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